Did you know? Cary Audio’s CEO, Billy Wright, has owned the company for 30 years. He came on board not long after Dennis Had founded the company. In 2009, Dennis decided to retire, making Billy the company’s sole owner. Cary Audio is one of the only privately owned companies in the high-end audio industry. Our factory is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and we have 19 employees, shipping worldwide. We love what we do and enjoy sharing our wonderful products with all music lovers to experience and enjoy. Keep up the good work, Billy!

Legendary Cary Audio tube pre-amp can now be subject to a massive upgrade (‘Ultimate Upgrade’). Steve Huff, a professional photographer and serious tube amp audiophile, decided to reach out to Cary Audio to get some hands-on experience with the updated pre. What does the ‘Ultimate Upgrade’ actually do to this classic pre-amp? Well, it is a gentle but effective component revision and soup-up which while preserving the original sonic signature also enhances its sound in many directions. The power supply will now have new smoothing capacitors with huge increase in filtering (extra 1200 µF) on B+ rail (high voltage), new …Read More

Stereophile magazine’s Recommended Components list is a comprehensive collection of noteworthy high end audio, divided into categories like Digital Players, Pre Amps, Power Amps, Integrated Amps and so on. Competing entries are selected amongst components reviewed in the magazine and have to be available through dealers in the USA presently. Cary Audio products always were one of this magazine’s favourites and the 2022 list is no exception (how very fortunate for us here at Cary Audio EU). This time our very own CAD-805RS monoblocks graced the Recommended Power Amps and SLI-100 with SLI-80HS were at the pole position at the …Read More

Paweł Gołębiewski wrote this review for Polish magazine Hi-Fi i Muzyka, issue 10/2021. You can now read it online in Polish at their website, here we did a couple of (clumsy) translations into English for you to ponder upon: ‘In case of SLI-80HS the upgrade route works, even if the amp is a well-established ‘classic’ product… Sonically the result manifests itself in a clearer presentation and better control in the bass regions. Midrange gained in clarity and the details were complimentary to the musical performance and presentation’. In his verdict, Pan Gołębiewski mentions that he will have fond memories of …Read More

Coming soon! Cary Audio is pleased to introduce the expanded DMS line up. While the DMS-700 continues to be our core DMS product, we wanted to add additional products to the line to meet various needs and desires of customers. As a result, our DMS family now includes the DMS-650, DMS-700, and DMS-800 Professional Version (PV). The new DMS-650 Network Audio Player (left) replaces the DMS-550. As our entry-point into the DMS platform, it is anything but entry-level. Using the AK4497EQ DACs along with our robust digital front-end and cutting-edge analog circuitry, the DMS-650 redefines what it means to be …Read More